, 1887-02-23
HOW THE OUTING WAS LOST.
: from the New York HeroId.l

10 again meet a New York Herald CORE
spondent," cheerily said q weather beaten
little man in sblue undress3 sea captains
uniformato-day in the principal street of
this city. 1t was Captain Cloudman, mas
ter Of the yacht Outing: sent by the ma
gazine of that name on November Is from
BOSTON, on a tour of the world.
Were Captain Cloudman of the ordinary
human kind he would be gray headed
today from the perils recently passed
through by him. Last Tuesday he and
his companion, George Muller, Of ROnd)ut
N. Y. taken on the yacht at this point,
were tossed upon the wreck famed shores
of Florida, on the east coast near Juplters
Inlet. Their yacht was dashed TO rag
ments, and the men washed ashore bruised,
ragged, clOthesless and nearly dead. Inc
story is of deep interest. The yacht Out
ing was IL tiny cookie shell, twenty -four
feet long. She was fitted out for marine
observations in the Gulf Stream and vari-
Ous parts Of the world. She came doTn
the coast behaving nicely and arrived at
This DOrt on December IS. She left on
January j, going to ST. Augustine and
leaving there on January II, C0aSting along
the east shore and thence to NauSau.
Their intention was to touch last at Jupi-
fer Inlet Lighthouse and then cross over.
They had bad weather from january II to
Tuesday morning, when the wind suddenly
shifted to northwest.
1t blew il hurricane and burst the main
sail from it's gasket, splitting II III several
places. 1t was secured and refurled as
So ~ ~ possible. "Then the yacht began
Iabouring and straning," said the Captain,
.and nut lis in fear for our lives. Maze Null
- orE on oinht nulIOn can of knrOSpnp
oil. and we threw a teacupful as each huge
wave was about ten or fifteen feet from the
vessel. This acted as the Herald has often
said. causing the wave to cal IN down ami
# was owing to tile use of the oil that our
lives were saved. Huge seas carried away
our two drags, andthe vessel was fast dlllnE.
Constant pumping failed to get the water
bnlow the cabin floor. We were compelled
tn RIM her for the beach. | tell You it WIS
q terrible time. We took a little cold
lnuch, eating as best we could. Then, there
being no help, we prepared for the c%rlSlN,r
moving our coats and oil skins and buckllng
orr belts a hole tighter. Muller took an oar
IN his hands | fastened an empty kerosene
oil can 20 my waist with Il lanyard. When
about three hundred yards from the beach
we prepared to jump overheard. just then
Muller shouted FSharkp | looked aud saw a
fifteen foot fellow showing out OF water
het us and the shore. We ~shuddered,
paused. and luckily as we hesitated the
shark disappeared. think he was driven
away by the oil on the water. Muller
Jumped. The undertOw caught him and
dragged him down, but by a hard struggle
he came up and swan for The shore"
II followed, being helped by the oil can.
I can't swim a stroke, though a sailor for
Ten wears. The current dritted us away
from the oil into the heavy sea-, but by
hard work we made some progress toward
the shore. When within about IL hundred
wards of the shore we were struck by the
heavy undertow and for a time failed TO
make any Roadway on our course, though
we were being drifted down the shore at
the rate of about five miles an hour. The
waves were running high and the breakers
awful to contemplate. At that time l was a
little ahead of Muller, but both were At q
stanGstill owing to the undertow. Finally
Muller, by a movement of the oar, succeeded
in reaching a footing, but | was about to
give up in despair when a furious breaker
struck me, sending me safely ashore in
an insensible condition and with internal
injuries. Muller caught and pulled me out
about twenty feet, where we had an OPP
portun.ty of resting a little while before
the tide came up to us. Though sore, weak
and stiff from want of food, loss of rest,
lard work and exposure, we managed to
larag ourselves to the life saving station.